Meghan Markle has made a new revelation about her two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, during the Christmas special of her Netflix show. The one-off episode of With Love, Meghan premiered on Netflix on the same day the King and Queen hosted the German state visit, and just hours after the Princess of Wales published a personal letter to guests attending her annual carol concert on Friday.
Meghan shared the UK’s “sweet” tradition of pulling crackers and explained that she put a love letter inside the one she made for Harry. She also revealed new details about her two young children as she made Advent calendars and crackers for them.
The Duchess explained the idea of Advent calendars as she put tiny gifts into Archie and Lili’s named fabric pocket calendars, saying: “I wanted to do it for my own kids… All it’s really about is having a surprise and delight every single day for 24 days until you get to Christmas.”
She also added in handwritten notes – which she referred to as “little findings” – for her children, saying: “I’m writing: ‘I love you because you are so kind’ and: ‘I love you because you’re so brave’.”
Elsewhere, she made personalised crackers, adding in a lavender roll-on scent for her four-year-old daughter Princess Lili, a tiny toy burger and fries for six-year-old Prince Archie, and a “little love letter” for Harry.
Meghan remarked: “Lili really likes trying to be a grown-up lady at the moment.” She added: “My husband’s has a little love letter, a chocolate, a little hat”, and she labels the cracker: “My Love” rather than: “Harry”.
Of Archie, she said: “Now I’m on to Archie and I’m doing burgers and he loves the colour red.”
Archie and Lili do not appear in the episode.
Meghan also suggested “trying to really embrace and lean into making every day of that month special as you’re wrapping up a year. “But don’t feel like you have to do it all. Just embrace the special touches that bring you joy.”
The Duchess, who spent her first Christmas with the late Queen and the Royal Family at Sandringham in Norfolk in 2017 when she was engaged to Harry, recounted learning about the “connected and sweet” tradition of crossing arms to pull Christmas crackers together.
“Living in the UK, it’s just such a part of … Christmas holidays, for sure. Typically, people cross arms and do it… yeah, so they sit around the table and they all pull at the same time. It actually does feel really connected and sweet.
“The way that I really started to know them – they would always have almost a fortune cookie-size joke or riddle, and something sweet.”
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